The Baker McKenzie Cloud Compliance Center provides a snapshot of the legal and regulatory position of cloud in key jurisdictions of interest for financial institutions, and provide simple answers to a few important headline questions that all financial institutions will need to consider when taking the leap to cloud.
On June 7, 2022, Senators Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) and Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced a bill to regulate digital assets and promote financial innovation. The proposed legislation is the first significant, bipartisan effort to apply comprehensive regulation to digital assets.
Our series, Finding Balance, maps the environment financial institutions must navigate to thrive in the post-pandemic global market. Starting in 2020 and finishing this year, we looked across our subsectors — at banking and insurance, financial sponsors, as well as financial infrastructure and payment providers — and re-evaluated the potential impact of the major global drivers of change in financial services such as ESG and digital transformation. The series also considers the risks to and pressures on financial institutions presented by increasing corporate indebtedness, the rise of alternative finance, and increasing regulatory scrutiny originating from the 2008 financial crisis.
Our new episode of FInsight: Global Financial Institutions Industry Podcast takes a look at the hot topics and developments that will be covered in this year’s UK Fintech Week.
In the ninth installment in the Finding Balance series, we take a closer look at the impact of new technology on financial institutions.
With financial services regulation developing at pace in areas such as ESG, Fintech and new technologies, our newly launched horizon scanning tool, the Global Financial Services Regulatory (FSR) Momentum Monitor enables financial service providers to plan and prepare for coming regulatory developments across the jurisdictions in which they operate.